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Grafton street, Dublin
international / education Monday August 26, 2013 - 23:31 by Shay Leon   image 5 images   video 3 video files
On August 24, over 7000 activists marched, in 41 cities and 17 countries, for our fellow Earthlings.
The event called people to take their blindfolds off to animal suffering and the human toll dairy and meat has.

In Grafton street 40 people stood blindfolded near McDonald and Bernardo's Fur. ... read full story / add a comment
gentle greyhound...abandoned after racing.
dublin / animal rights Thursday August 22, 2013 - 18:54 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
The Alliance for Animal Rights group AFAR wish to condemn the IGB who are fully responsible for the serious injuring of Four healthy Greyhounds who were made race at the ETS Derby in Shelbourne Park last week. All of these dogs were badly injured at the track, including being ‘KOd’ knocked over and sustaining bone breakages including broken legs and hocks. We surmise some of these dogs risk being killed as their racing careers are most likely ended and they are possibly only of use as stud dogs.
... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 22, 2013 - 09:47 by Justin Morahan   text 7 comments (last - tuesday september 03, 2013 - 12:34)   image 6 images
Below is a letter to President Barack Obama on the occasion of a protest by Colm Roddy and me outside the US Embassy in Dublin, Wednesday 21 July before Whistleblower Bradley Manning was given a horrendous sentence for telling the truth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 21, 2013 - 04:00 by Ciaron   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 21, 2013 - 12:32)
PHOTO - http://tinyurl.com/mmdbef7
YOUTUBE (3mins 35 secs) - "If I had a Hammer" by David Rovics
http://tinyurl.com/l8wxwrg
inspired by helicopter gunship ploughshares action undertaken by Graeme Dunstan & Bryan Law Talisman Sabre 2011 Trial began in August 19th 2013 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 20, 2013 - 10:56 by Anthony Ravlich
When Helen Clark, Head of the United Nations Development Program, was asked during question time after delivering a lecture why the UN says nothing about the new plan for the world, global ethical human rights, she ignored the question.

... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday August 19, 2013 - 23:32 by rus
Russian authorities have detained hundreds of migrant workers in a makeshift camp in Moscow as part of a widespread crackdown on illegal immigration ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 18, 2013 - 11:44 by #StandbyGraemeD   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 20, 2013 - 02:32)   video 1 video file
Plz Fwd/Post/ Spread YOUTUBE (30 secs) - Stand By Graeme Dunstan
on Trial Monday August 19th in Rockhampton, Australia
for Disarming Helicopter Gunship

YOUTUBE (30 secs) - Standby Graeme Dunstan on Trial for Disarming Helicopter Gunship
http://youtu.be/uw9deHWIQtw
... read full story / add a comment
Free Pussy Putin Release Martin Corey Counts
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 17, 2013 - 16:50 by brionOcleirigh   text 7 comments (last - friday august 23, 2013 - 20:22)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
The anti-internment march in Belfast on 9th August 2013, was a welcome display of disciplined unity, against a most serious abuse of human rights, that the establishment parties in Ireland, either wish to ignore or damn with feint protest, while at the same time professing to be democrats, socialists or republicans. Up to 10,000 marchers stewarded by a variety of Irish Republican Socialists, Republicans and human rights organisations, marched from Ardoyne in the north of Belfast, until they they were stopped for approximately 2 hours by PSNI jeeps and thousands of fascist, rioting UVF and Orange Order members near the city centre. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 13, 2013 - 15:32 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 14, 2013 - 12:40)
5 mins 18 secs into this VID - Jello Biafra's statement in support of Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAieFnFwMus ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday August 12, 2013 - 18:02 by ciara   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 13, 2013 - 19:17)
Pat Rabbitte is the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has walked away with a pension more than those working 30 years could save up for..

4 years service in the dail,means pat rabbitte of labour will walk away with a staggering 150 k pension per year,at a low 5% rate of tax,and he had the cheek to call us freeloaders when it came to the television license.

This man gets a whopping 150k a year -for a measly 4 years service in the dail,which begs the question how many other ministers are availing of overblown pensions like these and under what wafer thin conditions?

If we are to talk about people taking cuts,surley ministers pensions should be also laid out on the table,like nurses pay,teachers pay and garda pay and those on the state pension and welfare.

... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 07, 2013 - 22:13 by GCH np q
Last Sunday, we gathered at Giuseppe Conlon venue, as the sentencing phase for Bradley continues at NSA HQ, Ft. Meade,

Maryland, USA. We named our venue after Giuseppe Conlon who left his native Belfast for London as “an act of mercy” to visit
his son Gerry who had been fitted up, tortured and jailed. A similar fate was to meet Giuseppe and his in-laws the Maguires
who offered him for a bed for the night.

Giuseppe was to die in a British jail framed, libelled, tortured. Not even in death was he left alone as his body was flown back and forth
over the Irish Sea and stashed at Hereford before eventually being laid to rest. The Maguires too, who were also innocent, suffered long
years in British prisons. More on the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven here. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 05, 2013 - 14:10 by Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)   text 1 comment (last - monday august 05, 2013 - 17:02)   image 3 images
BARELY two weeks after the death of Antonio “Dodong” Petalcorin, the transport leader who was murdered by a paid assassin in Davao City, another local leader of NCTU-APL in Cotabato City was gunned down in a brazen daytime attack again, which makes a mockery of justice and underscores the reign of impunity in the country.

... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday August 04, 2013 - 15:20 by Ernie O'Malley   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 06, 2013 - 07:18)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
those who oppose the take over of republicanism by 'former' pia men of newco are being threatened and shot. soe of those shot were involved in crime, crime that was supported by those who now claim the are involved in a 'clean up'. those being shot and threatened also not coincidently oppose the take over by outside forces. thos ebeing threatened include a mother of a fallen volunteer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday August 03, 2013 - 17:29 by Mattie Lennon
John Cassidy goes global.......... Donegal man John Cassidy is embarking on a unique project.

The following is the story behind it;

In 2011 John found an old famine-pot, broken in pieces, in south Donegal. He had it welded, restored and mounted outside Leghowney Community Hall.

Such was the interest shown by American tourists that he decided to do some research on the whole Famine-pot/Soup–kitchen aspect of the famine and found that because of bigotry, pride, misguided patriotism and inherited false information,this aspect of the potato failure was almost air-brushed from our history. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 02, 2013 - 21:28 by WG   text 10 comments (last - friday april 18, 2014 - 16:29)
The UK owned Royal Bank of Scotland in the form of its subsidiary Ulster Bank is about to attempt to evict no less than 4000 families - that is approximately 16,000 people from their own homes on the island of Ireland. Once this happens the other banks will join the fray.

Please alert everyone to this - mass resistance on a scale not seen for 100 years is now required to stop this - there is a decent chance that with mass resistance in Ireland then the Banksters can be stopped in their tracks worldwide.

Please spread this warning far and wide and rally support . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 31, 2013 - 15:17 by Free Brad!   text 1 comment (last - friday august 02, 2013 - 09:55)
Three hours before the Bradley Manning verdict was to come down Tuesday (NSA HQ Ft.Meade, Maryland USA 1pm/ London 6pm), supporters of Bradley Manning gathered at the Eros statue in Picadilly Circuls London. The 15 gathered, included
folks from Aotearoa, Australia, England, Ireland, Iraq, Italy, United States. They included artists, a boat builder, Catholic Workers
fathers, former prisoners, mothers, musicians, priests, & students. They were joined by a Swiss tourist who picked a Bradley Manning placard. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday July 30, 2013 - 19:32 by nmn
In a show trial that focuses the biggest spotlight in decades to shine on the United States and its own goverment's flouting and twisting of the US Constitution in support of its militaristic ambitions, whistleblower Bradley Manning has now been cleared by a court martial's single judge of charges of 'aiding the enemy' by releasing secret government documents to WikiLeaks. It was the most damning of over 20 charges against him and carried a sentence of life in prison without parole.
... read full story / add a comment
Beatriz Etxebarria upon her arrest -- her sexual torture began that day
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 28, 2013 - 17:21 by Diarmuid Breatnach   image 1 image
Torture of Basque poltical activists is endemic in the Spanish state. Of the 21,000 Basques arrested since 1960, 10,000 have been tortured, according to a Basque historical memory organisation in a recent statement. Some of the tortures, in particular of women, have included sexual humiliation, stripping, sexual handling and penetration by objects. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 28, 2013 - 08:32 by Free Brad!
VID ( 5 mins) Free Speech: Use it or Lose it!
Sat J27: London Bradley Manning Solidarity Crew joined by NYC's Rev. Billy!
http://tinyurl.com/m8779ul ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 26, 2013 - 11:28 by PM, APL, Sentro-Nagkaisa   image 5 images
Three years ago, President Aquino promised to substantially reduce poverty, create quality and secure jobs, and end the reign of impunity, among others. He promised “inclusive growth”. Workers have had enough of these broken promises. ... read full story / add a comment
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